An Assessment of the Implementation of Council Regulation (No 1836/93) Eco-Management Audit Scheme in the Member States

This is the final report of the project ‘An Assessment of the Implementation Status of Council Regulation (No 1836/93) Eco-management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) in the Member States’; hereafter abbreviated as AIMS-EMAS. This report gives a brief introduction to the aims, methods, management and funding of the project. The main body of the report presents the results of the AIMS-EMAS telephone survey of Competent Bodies, Accreditation Bodies, Accredited Environmental Verifiers (AEV) and EMAS registered sites in the 15 Member States.

As requested, conclusions and recommendations for the revision of the Regulation will be made and presented at a meeting of the Article 19 Committee on 8 and 9 June 1998 in Brussels.

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